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BillTre reacted to Matterwave's post in the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions? with
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I don't view physicalism as saying "physics explains everything" but more as "everything arises from the physical". The former statement... -
For me consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of higher and higher number of self-interaction neurons. There is no one neuron, one...
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BillTre replied to the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions?.There are actually better ways than surveys to measure thought processes. When I was an undergraduate I was a subject in a psychophysics...
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Did you see the NFL is playing its first American football game in Australia today? I hear they're going to try a new play called the...
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Behaviour, and levels of intelligence and consciousness can be measured in animals and humans. Perhaps not as perfectly as an electric...
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BillTre reacted to pinball1970's post in the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions? with Like.
Me too. Different brains, different types of CNS different levels of what we describe as conscious. Damage or disease to the brain...
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My answer is in the link you provided: Many neurobiologists and computer scientists feel that philosophers such as Block and Searle are...
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BillTre reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions? with
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I think robots can already do that, but that's not at all what is meant by phenomenal consciousness. At best, this could be some form of... -
What's to explain? If you ask someone how many people are in the room, including themselves, then I don't see the problem with them...
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Given how quickly AI is producing artificial versions of human behaviour, the hypothesis that consciousness is beyond what could be...
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I think this whole question is working on the wrong end of the problem. Rather than worrying about how thoughts and emotions are built...
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BillTre reacted to martinbn's post in the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions? with Like.
Wouldn't this mean that there is some kind of magic?
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I have perhaps an unusual view that there is nothing special to explain. As a self-modifying algorithm becomes more sophisticated, it...
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BillTre reacted to renormalize's post in the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions? with Like.
Can you cite one or more credible technical references that support the notion that consciousness "is made from a fundamental energy...
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BillTre reacted to ohwilleke's post in the thread How do atoms build thoughts and emotions? with Like.
Lefty is on the right track. The path to wisdom here is thinking about the problem from the top down rather than from the bottom up...
